Infidelity (2004) Online

I kept being surprised all through this movie at how it took a somewhat distasteful subject, marital infidelity, and made you feel the pain of the person who is driven to look for love and validation outside of marriage, even when there was plenty of both inside the marriage. This movie explores very convincingly the tug-of-war that goes on inside a person who has absorbed the wrong values of one parent and has mistaken the martyrdom of the other parent. Frankly, I don't know how the married woman was able to resist having sex with that hot young man, but the fact that she didn't is all the more testimony to what an unusual and non-exploitive look at the issue the movie was able to present. Catch it if you can. It isn't the usual god-awful Lifetime fare.

You may recall the film with Richard Gere and Diane Lane, "Unfaithful", as directed by Adrian Lyne, in 2001.

This film has similar elements, intelligent woman, troubled marriage, dead-end affair.

For an LMN movie this is well-acted. It takes place in New Orleans, and several good performances with Kyle Secor, as Dana Delaney's husband and Cristi'an De La Fuente as the ubiquitous lover.

What is nice about this film is it does not preach, people are emotionally troubled in their marriage, and seek an outlet. We see Dr. Monteys (Delaney ) relationship to her gigolo father, whey she reacts and enables his affairs the way she does. Overall an interesting film with good performances. 8/10.

...is that the makers try to have it both ways. Adultery is wrong but....you know when a woman is lonely or bored or just wants to spice up her life then it is OK. The cuckold husband comes off as a wimp or befuddled, stupid or whatever. Only in movies where the husband is unfaithful do we get black and white lines drawn. This is terrible, how awful what a monster he is. In the movie the wife has supposedly been affected by her fathers infidelity ( aha!! We knew a man provoked this) but by the films end she condemns his affairs harshly while her own indiscretions go by with out any judgment by herself or open honest admittance by her. 5/10